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Archipelontwerpers

Profile of Archipelontwerpers, headquartered in Netherlands. Five projects submitted by Archipelontwerpers have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

: Eric Vreedenburgh – © Archipelontwerpers

Principal

Eric Vreedenburgh

Brief description

Eric Vreedenburgh is an architect. After graduation from the Technical University Delft he has been selected for the ‘Biennale of Young Architects’ and set up the Archipelontwerpers firm in 1984.

Archipelontwerpers is a Dutch architectural company producing design and research activities in the field of Architecture, Urban planning, Interior design and Industrial design. Parallel to their design activities, they conduct research especially on product design, flexibility, ‘mass customization’ and ‘customized Prefab’ and initiate manifestations in the tangent planes of art and technology. With this activity they try to establish a break through the categorical thinking, which segregates the different design disciplines. It is a proven design attitude, Archipelontwerpers has a track record with many award winning projects.

Design principles:

Forms and ways of using the city change, because our way of life is changing. Today cities consume about 75% of the world’s energy and cause most of its pollution.

This leads to a complex dynamic situation, a continuous interaction of action and response. Housing is open to many interpretations, it reflects cultures and subcultures, and is bound to a certain period. It seems to have a life of his own, a life that cannot be domesticated and predicted by matrices, scenarios or visual reference plans.

That is why it is important to search for other strategies of industrial building – not strategies that are geared to the production of monocultures, but strategies with flexibility, interaction and individual choice as ingredients.

The space in the urban environment has to be used more intensively, but the possibilities are limited. One of the leading options for the future is the use of the flat roofs of residential buildings and office blocks as building sites. Rooftop buildings can intensify the existing city, inject it with new vitality and break through the monofunctionality of a neighbourhood.

Published projects

: The Nautilus by Archipelontwerpers Sky Borne Buildings: The harbour of Scheveningen was originally a fishing harbour. In the course of time fishery declined in importance and so did the...

: Steel Study House 2 by Archipelontwerpers Leeuwarden is a provincial town in the north of Holland. The landscape in this region has been conquered from the sea and therefore it is mostly flat and...

: Cats House by Archipelontwerpers From the realisation that not only resources but also space is scarce in Holland Archipelontwerpers have always been proponents of the stacking of functions...

: Bliek House by Archipelontwerpers This house can be found in the peaceful and leafy surroundings of Benoordenhout district, close to the centre of The Hague. This area has many residences of...

: Steel Study House by Archipelontwerpers Forms and ways of using the city change, because our way of life is changing. Today cities consume about 75% of the world’s energy and cause most of its...